Absolutely Juvenile

Chapter 1

I could feel the wind rustling through my hair. The adrenaline pumped through my veins, making my legs only sprint faster. I giggled to myself of the sensation of it all. Glancing behind me briefly, I caught sight of my two best friends on my heels. There was Lisa, with her choppy black hair flopping in her hazel-green eyes. Then there was Ali, with her regular length platinum blonde hair and ice silver blue eyes. Both were beautiful and sleuthy, just like me. We had just pulled the most bloody awesome prank on the top pranksters in the school, the Mauderer's.

Pulling a prank on the Mauderer's is like suicide. Everyone knows that they are the masters of pranks, but we are slowly taking that title. We had a good reason to prank them anyway. First of all Ali has a crush on one of them, Remus Lupin. He is attractive enough, sure, but he is too sweet and quiet to be Lisa's or my type. Second of all, Sirius Black pulled a Merlin-awful prank on me. But that's another story. So we got back at them by bewitching their Charms quiz so it automatically wrote insults about them. And it wouldn't erase. To top it off, we charmed all of the owls in the Owlery to fly into the Charms classroom and attack all four of them. It was bloody hilarious… I say bloody too much.

So here we are, running for our lives from four very aggravated seventh year boys. I glanced behind me again to see that the Mauderer's were a good ten yards away from us. Good, we have a great head start. I pushed myself to run harder as Ali and Lisa fell into pace with me. I could hear yelling and cursing behind us, which only made my grin expand. I quickly rounded a corner, and before the Mauderer's could catch up I grabbed my girls by the scruffs of their necks and threw them in a broom closet. Then I quickly shut the door behind me and doubled over with gasps. I could only hear heavy breathing for a moment before I heard yelling.

"Prongs their in here!" I heard Sirius Black's voice through the door. I cursed and stumbled over a broom kit, falling on my arse comically. I heard a snort of laughter coming from Lisa and an aggravated sigh from Ali. She gets annoyed at little things, like apparently me falling on my ass. I could hear hushed whispers out of the door, and I struggled to my feet and pressed my ear against the door. I still couldn't make out what they were saying. Dammit.

"If they try to hurt us, just start crying. That gets guys every time, they can't stand to see girls cry." whispered Lisa from a corner of the closet. I could just barely make out her face in the darkness, since the only light in the room was coming from under the door. Just then I heard a clicking noise coming from the door. Then I heard snickers and footsteps leading away.

I grabbed the handle and tried to pull it down, but it wouldn't budge. Shit! I really don't know what I was expecting, but I didn't actually think that they would lock us in a broom closet. I jiggled the handle violently. I took my wand out to open it magically, but when I uttered the spell my wand just made a funny clicking noise and did nothing.

"They did not." Ali gasped, shoving me out of the way and trying to open the door herself. Lisa joined her, but the door was locked through and through. The both groaned and slumped to the ground in defeat, and I joined them.

"Stupid Mauderer's." Lisa sighed angrily. I bobbed my head tiredly to let her know that I agreed, one hundred percent. The Mauderer's were… interesting.

James Potter was the ring leader in most of the pranks and such, and he was very stuck up with his Quidditch Captain and Head Boy badges worn proudly on his chest. He had a huge crush on Lily Evans since, well, forever. I really don't know what he saw in her, she was mostly just a popular little brat with a really hot head. She blew up on him daily, deflating his ego a bit more each time. He wasn't bad looking, but nothing compared to Sirius Black.

Ahh, Sirius. He was very, attractive, I will not deny it. He is practically indescribable, since he actually has quite plain features; just put together they look amazing. It's also the way he holds himself, like he's important and he knows it. But with his long dark hair and stormy grey eyes… he's drop dead gorgeous. I did have a crush on him, in like third year. But then I realized the errors of my ways. Even though he is nice looking, he is a pain in the arse. He thinks he's king of Hogwarts, and is so full of himself that I wouldn't be surprised if he snogged himself in the mirror. And he is just plain annoying, in the way how he goes from girl to girl and screws them over, then moves on. Maybe he looks at me and other girls as sex partners, but I so don't work that way. Okay maybe a little… but not the point.

Then there's Remus Lupin. He is the one who keeps the others in line, even though even he can't resist a good prank every once in a while. He is hot, quite frankly, but not in the way that Sirius and James are. He doesn't have the toned muscles that they have from Quidditch, but more of a lean build. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He doesn't date, is very sweet, and mostly keeps to himself. He gets ill very often, and there is something very mysterious about him… a secret that only he and the rest of the Mauderer's know.

Then there's Peter. He isn't important really; he's not even that nice looking. He's just plain and odd, but the Mauderer's are friends with him anyway. I don't understand it really… but whatever. As I said, not important.

"Help!" Ali cried meekly. We were tired from staying awake all night planning this prank, and all the running we just did. We are in shape, but it's been a long day. Actually I am on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and Lisa on Ravenclaw's. I am a chaser and her, a seeker, and we both love the sport. Ali is more of a makeup and shopping sort of girl, which neither of us mind since we love those things too. So overall, we all are thin but strong.

Minutes dragged by, all of us making pointless conversation and pounding on the door whenever we heard someone walking by. But the Mauderer's must have put a silencing charm on the door too, because we weren't heard. Hours must have dragged on, the time passed so sluggishly that I couldn't keep track. I heard the bells signaling the beginning and ends of each lesson, and I listened and waited until the last bell of the day rung.

"We have our first Quidditch practice tonight." I groaned. It was the beginning of the year; we had only been in school for a week. So far it had been a great start to my Seventh Year at Hogwarts, except for this small interruption. I counted the minutes as they passed, and after thirty I knew that practice had started. Surely James would come after me; I was his best chaser after all.

Just then we heard footsteps. We all jumped to our feet and started pounding away at the door, even though we knew it was hopeless. We screamed until our voices felt hoarse, and the footsteps neared. We kept pounding but stopped screaming. The footsteps paused, and there was a clicking noise.

Apparently Lisa had been holding the door handle, so we fell through the door and onto the hard ground by the feet of Sirius Black.

I breathed in the fresh air and clutched my side where I had fallen. I heard Sirius's bark-like laughter, and I looked up and glared at him. He widened his eyes all 'innocent' like and put a hand on his chest.

"I am very sorry ladies, I'm not being polite. Do you need a hand?" He held out both of his hands to us, and Lisa and Ali gladly took them. He pulled them to their feet effortlessly, and then offered a hand to me. I spit at him angrily and scrambled to my feet. A plan had formed in my head, and I was only beginning to fill it out. I widened my eyes discreetly to the girls and they both nodded and huffed in fake annoyance.

"Just admit you did it." I snapped, crossing my arms over my chest and starting to walk toward the doors leading outside. Sirius chuckled and lengthened his strides to match mine. The girls hissed at his happiness and he gave them cheerful waves before turning back to me. I could hear their footsteps as they retreated back to their separate common rooms.

"Actually it was James's idea." Sirius admitted, smirking broadly at me. I rolled my eyes and gave him another dirty look. His smile faded.

"Oh come on Mckinnon, you started it anyway." I shook my head at his childlike behavior. His lips turned down in a pout.

"Actually, Black," I stressed out the use of his surname, since I knew he hated that. His gaze turned into a death glare. "You started it when you pranked me yesterday." I finished, simpering proudly. He opened his mouth to protest, but closed it once he realized I was right. Success! I pushed open the doors and began strutting across the lawns of the castle. The air was fresh and felt like fall, it was perfect weather to ride a broomstick. I did a couple of victory woops and cartwheel's to bug Sirius, and grinned as I watched him sulk behind me. When we reached the pitch James immediately started screaming at us.

"Sirius! Marlene! Where the hell have you been?" He shouted as I skipped into the middle of the pitch where the rest of the team was standing. I shot James what I hoped was a glittering smile. He sighed in my direction and turned to Sirius and started lecturing him about him 'taking his time' to let us out of the closet. I stepped in at this point.

"Hello? You were the one who thought to lock us in there in the first place!" I retorted. I wasn't defending Sirius really, just trying to make a point. James huffed and gave Sirius a look.

"And you told her that? Whose side are you on?" He complained. Sirius gave him a hopeful smile and leaned forward to whisper something to him. Then they both turned to me. I backed up, since they were both rather large and were obviously ganging up on little ol' me.

"You pranked us. No one pranks the Mauderer's." James said, grinning like a mad man. I walked backwards until my back hit the wall separating the bleachers from the pitch.

"Whoa guys, I know I'm attractive and all…" I said cockily, putting my hands up in front of me. They both smirked, and Sirius's grey eyes gleamed. James fell back and let Sirius walk up toward me, making it so I couldn't possibly go around him. He stood so close that his body was touching mine and I could feel his breath across my cheeks.

"Now it war, baby." He whispered. I raised my eyes and looked into his dark grey ones. His eyes darted down toward my lips and back to my eyes again. Then he leaned in. Before he could get far I arched my neck to one side and slapped his across the face. While he was distracted, I kneed him where it hurts. He fell to the ground whimpering, and I jumped over him and kicked a bit of dirt up behind me, making sure it got into his eyes. He groaned, making me nod my head in approval. Then I giggled and sauntered back to where James was staring, watching with a disgusted look on his face.

"Ow." He commented. I smirked, and accio-ed my broom to my side. I raised my eyebrows at the rest of the team, ignoring the pathetic noises, curses, and complaints coming from Sirius.

"Who's ready to start practice?"

Once I finished a very brutal practice I took a long shower, making sure to scrub the filth out of my hair and off my body. I hummed a cheery tune to myself as I inhaled the beautiful smell of my Sun Kiss shampoo and body wash. It was a delicious-smelling combination of citrus, vanilla, and mangoes. Totally my style.

After my luxurious shower I headed to my detention in McGonagall's room. I got caught snogging someone in her room, and she gave me detention. You see, I've had this semi-crush on Jeremy Wood for the past month, but the only problem is that he's dating one of my friends, Mary McDonald. She's one of Lisa's close friends in Ravenclaw, so Lisa knows her better than I do. Jeremy is a player, in fact he is known from cheating on girls and flirting with everyone. He's not as bad as Sirius, at least he's nicer. So I sort of like him right? So after class we began talking and then after McGonagall left the room we started snogging. I don't mean just regular kissing; we were full on French kissing. Oops.

Then Minnie walked in and gave us both detentions. I (brightly in fact) made an inappropriate comment and got even more detention plus twenty points from Gryffindor. So, here I am, heading toward detention and not looking forward to it at all. Last night I had to file papers and listen to Minnie lecture me about snogging. Not the best time I've ever had, if you know what you mean.

It's also been hard because I've been coming up with excuses for going to detention since Lisa will get pissed if she knows that I snogged Mary's boyfriend. Today I told them that I was going to the library, and they looked pretty confused since I normally did nothing school related after classes. Homework, studying, nope. I wasn't going to waste my time doing work when I could be messing around doing whatever I want.

I wasn't looking where I was going and ran into a little third year. She looked up at me in astonishment, her mouth in a little 'o'. She looked like a right fool.

"Are you Marlene Mckinnon?" She asked, gaping at me like I was some animal in a zoo. I rolled my eyes and planted a hand on my hip.

"Yup. What do you want?" She started rolling ten million questions off of that little tongue of hers. Ah, she's a gossiper. I get a lot of these, since Ali, Lisa, Lily Evans, and I are the most popular girls in the school. Probably because we are the prettiest (well they are, I do not think that I'm that pretty… just kidding, I know I'm sexy.) girls in the school and practically all of the guys in the school are chasing after us. I held up a hand to silence the little bitch, who was practically telling me all of the rumors going on about me. I didn't care, not at all.

"I can't talk, I have detention." I continued strutting down the hallway, ignoring the questions she yelled at my retreating back. I reached McGonagall's classroom, and swung open the door happily.

"Minnie!" I crowed, plopping down on a chair and giving her my most winning smile. I expected her to turn around with a scowl on her face, but instead she turned around with a very, very upset look on her face. When she spoke, my heart literally stopped in my chest.

"Dumbledore needs to see you."

A/N: Hey guys! I know this is a pretty common cliff hanger, but mine is a bit different because what Dumbledore tells Marlene pretty much sets the whole story going. So this is my story I came up with when I was listening to Down On Me by 50 Cent and Jermeiah. If you listen to the song, the guy singing the chorus just sounded like a Sirius Black to me, so I got inspired. I think I might actually get somewhere with this, and I have most of the story planned out. Please let me know if I need to revise anything or anything like that! Please please please tell me what you think, and let me know if it's any good! Flames and anything are welcome. Thank you a bunch for reading!

~Love you lots,

Alaina

P.S. Yes, there will be sexual references and cussing in this story. Just saying, I will probably have to rate it Mature soon. I am NOT going to make the references dirty, and I'm not going to use extreme cuss words, so don't think that! Thanks